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Building an Eval for a Claude-Powered Application / 为 Claude 驱动的应用构建评测

If you arrived via /claude-api build-eval: this is the right file. If the user passed an argument, treat it as their answer to the first question below - what they want to measure. Run the interview - don't summarize it back to the user, ask the questions and work through the sign-offs. The goal is a runnable eval the user trusts, not a document about evals.

**如果你是通过 /claude-api build-eval 进入本文件的：**那这个文件就是对的。如果用户传入了参数，把它当作用户对下方第一个问题的回答——即他们想测量什么。直接执行访谈——不要把问题复述给用户听，而是提出问题并逐项完成签核。目标是产出一个用户信任、可实际运行的评测，而不是一篇关于评测的文档。

This guide is for when a user wants to measure whether their Claude app is working - typically because they're about to change something (migrate to a new model, rewrite a prompt, add a tool) and need to know whether the change helped. Your job is to build an eval that could be used to make deploy decisions.

本指南适用于用户想要衡量其 Claude 应用是否正常工作的场景——通常是因为他们即将做出某种变更（迁移到新模型、重写提示词、新增工具），需要知道这次变更是否带来了改善。你的任务是构建一个可用于部署决策的评测。

An eval, for this purpose, is three things: a set of input examples, a way to run the app against each input, and a way to grade each output. The runner is usually a plain Python script; it could be a CLI, a pytest suite, or whatever fits their stack. The exact shape matters much less than whether the user looks at the inputs and says "yes, those are the cases I care about" and looks at the grades and says "yes, that's measuring the right thing." Do not impose a framework. Read how their codebase is already structured and fit the eval into it.

就本文而言，评测由三部分组成：一组输入样例、一种对每个输入运行应用的方式、一种给每个输出评分的方式。运行器（runner）通常就是一个普通的 Python 脚本；它也可以是 CLI、pytest 套件，或任何契合用户技术栈的形态。具体形态远不如这一点重要：用户看着输入能否说"对，这些就是我关心的用例"，看着评分能否说"对，这测的就是该测的东西"。不要强加框架。先读用户的代码库已有的结构，把评测融入其中。

Stay recommendation-forward throughout: every decision goes through AskUserQuestion with your pick listed first and labelled "(Recommended)", so a user who trusts your defaults clicks through in seconds and one who doesn't can override at the exact point they care about. It is much easier to react to "here's what I'd do - OK?" than to answer an open question from scratch.

全程以"先给推荐"的方式推进：每个决策都通过 AskUserQuestion 提出，把你的选择列在首位并标注"(Recommended)"，这样信任你默认值的用户几秒钟就能点完，不信任的用户也能恰好在他们真正在意的那个点上改掉。对"我打算这么做——可以吗？"做出反应，远比从头回答一个开放式问题容易。

Talking to the user. These steps are your execution plan, not a script to narrate. Keep user-facing messages short and outcome-focused: what you built, the number it produced, what you need them to look at, a path or link to open. Don't walk the user through which step you're on, which files you're writing, or internal bookkeeping unless they ask. One concise update per step is enough; instead of listing individual cases, prompts, or per-case scores in the chat, prefer to give the report.html path and a one-line headline - call out one or two specific cases in chat only when there's a reason the user should look at those first. When you need a decision - grader type, where inputs come from, what "good" means, which guardrails matter - use the AskUserQuestion tool rather than free-text prose: batch up to four related questions into one call, give each two to four concrete options with your recommendation listed first and labelled "(Recommended)", and don't add your own "Other" option - the tool appends a free-text one automatically. If AskUserQuestion isn't available (headless runs), fall back to one short question at a time.

**与用户的沟通方式。**这些步骤是你的执行计划，而不是需要朗读的脚本。面向用户的消息要简短、以结果为核心：你构建了什么、产出了什么数字、需要用户看什么、要打开哪个路径或链接。不要向用户逐步播报你进行到哪一步、正在写哪些文件或内部记账细节，除非用户主动问。每步一条简明更新即可；与其在聊天里罗列各个用例、提示词或逐用例分数，不如给出 report.html 路径和一句话结论——只有当存在让用户优先查看的理由时，才在聊天里点名一两个具体用例。需要用户决策时——评分器类型、输入来源、"好"的定义、哪些护栏重要——使用 AskUserQuestion 工具而非自由文本：一次调用打包最多四个相关问题，每个给两到四个具体选项，你的推荐排第一并标注"(Recommended)"，不要自己添加"Other"选项——工具会自动追加一个自由文本选项。如果 AskUserQuestion 不可用（无头运行），退化为一次只问一个简短问题。

There are two sign-offs you always need - the inputs and the grading method. Each is a literal pause: state what you're proposing, ask for approval, and wait for a clear yes - not silence, and not your own judgment that it's fine. If getting to a yes took several rounds of back-and-forth, restate the final version in one message and confirm it once more before you build on it; it's easy for both sides to lose track of what was actually agreed after five refinements. They're the only places you wait for prose, not a click. Everything else is guidance; adapt freely to the user's situation.

有两项签核是永远需要的——输入和评分方法。每一项都是字面意义上的暂停：说明你的方案，请求批准，然后等待一个明确的"是"——不是沉默，也不是你自己判断"应该没问题"。如果达成"是"经过了多轮往返，就在一条消息里复述最终版本并再确认一次，然后才在其上继续构建；五轮修改之后，双方都很容易记不清实际达成的共识是什么。这两处是仅有的需要等待文字回复而非点击的地方。其余都只是指导性内容，可随用户情况自由调整。

【评论】把"用户签核"设为硬性停顿点，是这类系统提示词中典型的流程护栏设计：强制智能体在关键决策上取得显式授权，防止自作主张。

Read shared/evals/eval-audit.md now, before Step 0, and keep it in view throughout. It is the health checklist every eval must satisfy - task design, harness design, metrics hygiene, grader design, and whether the eval can detect the change the user is after. While you build, treat each item as a construction requirement the runner, grader, and case set meet by default; when the user brings an existing eval, it is the verification you run on it; and before the first full paid pass you run it once more against what you built and report per its §6.

**现在、即第 0 步之前，先阅读 shared/evals/eval-audit.md，并在全程让它保持在视野内。**它是每个评测都必须满足的健康清单——任务设计、测试装置（harness）设计、指标卫生、评分器设计，以及评测能否检测出用户想要的那个变更。构建期间，把每一项都当作运行器、评分器和用例集默认要满足的构建要求；当用户带来现成的评测时，它就是你要对其执行的验证；在第一次完整付费运行之前，再对你构建出的东西运行一遍，并按其 §6 汇报。

Step 0: Understand what's being evaluated / ## 第 0 步：理解正在评估什么

For a complete worked example of this flow end to end - cases, labeling policy, runner, and a five-round hillclimb - see shared/evals/examples/clawd-triggering/ (in the EAP package and the source repo; the CLI does not extract it, so skip it if the directory is absent).

想看这条流程端到端的完整实例——用例、标注策略、运行器以及五轮爬山迭代——参见 shared/evals/examples/clawd-triggering/（位于 EAP 包和源码仓库中；CLI 不会解包它，若该目录不存在则跳过）。

Start by asking what the user actually wants to measure:

先询问用户真正想测量什么：

What exactly are you trying to evaluate - which use-case or feature? If this app does several things, which one do you need a number for first?

你到底想评估什么——哪个用例或功能？如果这个应用做好几件事，你首先需要为哪一件事拿到一个数字？

One app can easily have ten things worth evaluating - a classifier here, a summarizer there, an agent loop elsewhere - and they need different inputs and different grading. Pin down one. One flow per eval; don't try to build a grand unified benchmark. If the user invoked /claude-api build-eval with an argument, take that as their answer and confirm it rather than asking from scratch.

一个应用很容易就有十处值得评估的东西——这里一个分类器、那里一个摘要器、别处一个智能体循环——而它们需要不同的输入和不同的评分方式。先钉住一个。一次评测只针对一个流程；不要试图构建一个大一统基准。如果用户调用 /claude-api build-eval 时带了参数，就把它当作用户的回答并加以确认，而不是从头再问。

Then make sure you and the user agree on what "the app" is for that flow. Find the entry point: the function, endpoint, or script that takes a user input and produces the output that matters. Read enough of it to know the model, which provider it's calling (first-party Anthropic API, Claude Platform on AWS, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, Foundry), the system prompt, the tools, and what the output looks like (text, JSON, a tool trajectory, a file). If the entry point is a streaming proxy or wrapper that doesn't surface model, usage, or stop_reason, propose a small additive change to its final event so the runner can record them per case - without those the report can't derive cost or flag truncation. Any code the runner writes - judge calls included - must use the same provider's client class and model-ID format; see SKILL.md and its referenced shared/ docs for the per-provider details.

接下来，确保你和用户就"这个应用"在该流程中指什么达成一致。找到入口点：接收用户输入并产出关键输出的函数、端点或脚本。阅读足够多的代码，弄清模型、它调用的是哪家提供商（Anthropic 第一方 API、AWS 上的 Claude Platform、Amazon Bedrock、Vertex AI、Foundry）、系统提示词、工具，以及输出的样子（文本、JSON、工具调用轨迹、文件）。如果入口点是一个流式代理或包装器，没有暴露 model、usage 或 stop_reason，就提议对其最终事件做一个小的增量式修改，让运行器能逐用例记录这些字段——缺了它们，报告无法推导成本、也无法标记截断。运行器写的任何代码——包括评审调用（judge call）——都必须使用同一家提供商的客户端类和模型 ID 格式；各提供商的细节见 SKILL.md 及其引用的 shared/ 文档。

If the flow depends on live external state - a database, a search index, a customer's private documents - note that now. You'll need fixtures or a test instance to make the eval reproducible, and whether those exist will shape everything downstream. Prefer measuring real outcomes through the real entry point whenever possible. Only when that can't be run safely or reproducibly - because tools have real-world side effects (send emails, write to databases, delete files) or depend on live external state that's since changed - stub those tools (optionally replaying canned tool results) and grade the model's tool calls and response text instead of the downstream effect.

如果该流程依赖活跃的外部状态——数据库、搜索索引、客户的私有文档——现在就记下来。你需要测试夹具（fixture）或测试实例才能让评测可复现，而它们是否存在将决定下游的一切。只要可能，优先通过真实入口点测量真实的结果。只有当真实运行无法安全或可复现地进行时——因为工具具有真实世界副作用（发邮件、写数据库、删文件），或依赖已经变化的活跃外部状态——才把这些工具打桩（stub，可选地回放预置的工具结果），转而评分模型的工具调用与响应文本，而不是下游效果。

Also ask what the system needs per example besides the user message:

另外询问除用户消息外，系统对每个样例还需要什么：

What does one request into this flow carry besides the text - attached files or images? User metadata or profile? Summarized memory of prior conversations? A container image or workspace for an agent to run in?

进入这个流程的一次请求除文本外还携带什么——附件文件或图片？用户元数据或画像？过往对话的摘要记忆？供智能体运行用的容器镜像或工作区？

The answer shapes what an eval "input" is. Often it's just a prompt string; sometimes it's a prompt plus a PDF, a user profile, a conversation prefix, or a path to a docker image for an agentic environment. Don't force a schema - just find out what the app actually consumes so each eval case carries everything the entry point needs. If the input is a multi-turn conversation, also pin down what gets graded: the final response only, each assistant turn independently, or the trajectory as a whole. A turn can look fine on its own but be downstream of an earlier wrong turn - grading per-turn will call that "good" when the conversation isn't. Default to grading the conversation outcome unless the user explicitly wants per-turn.

答案决定了评测"输入"的形态。通常它只是一个提示词字符串；有时是一个提示词加一份 PDF、一个用户画像、一段对话前缀，或指向智能体环境所用 docker 镜像的路径。不要强套模式——只要弄清应用实际消费什么，让每个评测用例都带上入口点所需的全部内容。如果输入是多轮对话，还要钉住评分对象：只评最终响应、每个助手回合独立评分，还是整条轨迹。单独看某一回合可能没问题，但它可能是早前某个错误回合的下游结果——逐回合评分会在整段对话其实不佳时判它"好"。除非用户明确要求逐回合评分，否则默认评分对话的整体结果。

Step 1: Find or build the input set / ## 第 1 步：寻找或构建输入集

Ask the user:

询问用户：

Do you already have any of the pieces - a set of test cases (even an informal spreadsheet), a grader or scoring function, or a harness/script that runs the app over inputs?

这些部件你已经有了吗——一组测试用例（哪怕是非正式的电子表格）、一个评分器或评分函数，或一个在输入上运行应用的测试装置/脚本？

Whatever exists, use it; build only what's missing. An existing grader gets wrapped, not rewritten; an existing harness gets a thin adapter that emits results.jsonl/traces/ in the Step 3 shape (that shape is the only contract the report needs - report/SCHEMA.md), not replaced by the scaffold. Say which pieces you're reusing and which you're adding before you write anything. If there are cases: read them, then run eval-audit.md against them - cases, runner, and grader - and report what you find per its §6 before deciding how much to reuse. Two questions to ask the user directly rather than infer: whether the inputs are still representative of real traffic, and where the expected outputs came from - human-written, human-verified, or a model's outputs (which model). Gold derived from a model under comparison - the incumbent in a migration, especially - makes reference-match scoring reward imitation of that model; say so and prefer a rubric or pairwise judge, or human-verify a sample first. If the audit and the user both trust it, use it as the starting point and reuse the grading. If only partly ("the inputs are fine but the grading is vibes"), keep the inputs and rebuild the grading. If not, treat it as one source among several.

**凡已有的就用，只补缺的。**现成的评分器被包装使用，而不是重写；现成的测试装置加一个薄适配器，让它按第 3 步的形态输出 results.jsonl/traces/（该形态是报告所需的唯一契约——见 report/SCHEMA.md），而不是被脚手架取代。在动手写任何东西之前，说明你要复用哪些部件、新增哪些部件。如果已有用例：先读它们，然后用 eval-audit.md 对其检查——用例、运行器和评分器——并按其 §6 汇报发现，再决定复用多少。有两个问题要直接问用户而不是自己推断：输入是否仍然能代表真实流量，以及预期输出从何而来——人工撰写、人工核验，还是某个模型的输出（哪个模型）。从被比较模型派生的金标准——尤其是迁移中的现役模型——会让参考匹配式评分奖励对该模型的模仿；要把这一点说出来，并优先使用量规（rubric）或成对评审，或先人工核验一个样本。如果审计和用户都信任它，就以它为起点并复用其评分。如果只部分可信（"输入没问题，但评分全凭感觉"），保留输入、重建评分。如果都不行，就把它当作若干来源之一。

Either way, ask where realistic inputs could come from. Work down this list and use the first source that's available and that the user is comfortable using:

**无论哪种情况，**都要询问真实输入可能来自哪里。按此清单逐项排查，使用第一个既可用、用户又乐于使用的来源：

  1. Production transcripts or logs. The highest-fidelity source. Ask where they live (Datadog, a database, S3, a logging endpoint) and whether you can pull a sample. Before you pull anything, confirm the source is usable in practice, not just available right now: Is there a retention policy that will force you to delete this data? Does it contain PII that can't sit in a repo? An eval built on data the user can't keep is an eval they can't re-run next quarter - that's worse than a synthetic one they can. If either answer is yes, three options: store only the identifiers in the repo and have the runner fetch the real inputs at eval time (nothing sensitive ever lands on disk); have the user pull and anonymize a sample themselves; or rewrite each real input into a synthetic one that preserves the shape and difficulty but replaces the identifying content (show the user the rewrites before using them).

    生产环境对话记录或日志。保真度最高的来源。询问它们存放在哪里（Datadog、数据库、S3、日志端点），以及你能否拉取一个样本。拉取任何东西之前，确认该来源在实践中可用，而不只是此刻存在：是否有保留策略会迫使你删除这些数据？其中是否包含不能放进代码仓库的 PII（个人身份信息）？建立在用户留不住的数据上的评测，下个季度就无法重跑——这比一个能重跑的合成评测更糟。如果任一答案为"是"，有三个选项：仓库里只存**标识符，让运行器在评测时拉取真实输入（敏感内容绝不落盘）；由用户自己拉取样本并做匿名化；或者把每条真实输入改写为保留形态与难度、但替换身份内容的合成输入（使用前把改写结果给用户过目）。

    【评论】在引入生产数据前先确认保留策略与 PII，属于数据治理层面的安全条款：评测的可复现性不应以敏感数据落盘为代价。

  2. Bug reports, support tickets, or "this went wrong" examples. Often the most valuable inputs are the ones someone complained about. Ask if there's a channel or tracker where these collect.

    **缺陷报告、支持工单或"这里出过问题"的例子。**最有价值的输入往往正是被人投诉过的那些。询问是否有汇集这类内容的渠道或追踪器。

  3. Hand-written by the user. Ask them for five to ten examples off the top of their head. These are usually skewed toward what's salient to them rather than what's frequent, so treat them as a seed, not the whole set.

    **用户手写。**请用户凭印象给出五到十个例子。这些例子通常偏向对他们而言显眼的情形，而非高频情形，因此把它们当作种子，而不是全部集合。

  4. Synthesized by you from the codebase. Read the system prompt, the tool descriptions, and any docs or tests, and generate candidate inputs that exercise the flow. This is the lowest-fidelity option - make that clear to the user, and don't do it cold: first get three to five real examples from them (source 3) plus a sentence on what makes a case hard in this domain, then synthesize variations of those rather than inventing from the prompt alone. Evals synthesized with nothing real to anchor on come out simplistic, and steering them afterwards costs the user more than writing cases would have.

    **由你从代码库合成。**阅读系统提示词、工具描述以及任何文档或测试，生成能覆盖该流程的候选输入。这是保真度最低的选项——向用户明说这一点，并且不要冷启动：先从用户那里拿到三到五个真实例子（来源 3），外加一句话说明在这个领域中什么样的用例才算难，然后基于这些合成变体，而不是只凭提示词凭空编造。没有任何真实锚点的合成评测会流于简单，事后调教它们的代价比用户直接写用例还高。

Aim for somewhere between fifteen and a hundred inputs for a first eval. Fewer than fifteen and a single flaky case swings the score; well past a hundred and the user won't actually review them all, which defeats the point of the sign-off - for a big set, have them read a stratified sample and lean on eval-audit.md §1's programmatic checks for the rest. You can always grow the set later. One caveat: if the user already knows they'll want to hill-climb on this eval afterwards, size the set against the change they hope to detect, not just against reviewability - eval-audit.md §5 has the arithmetic (noise floor ~ 1/sqrt(n·reps) for a pass-rate; 25 cases × 2 reps is about ±14 points). Show them that number next to the improvement they'd act on, and budget cases and reps together now: fifty-plus inputs with a random held-out slice, or fewer inputs with more reps, are two routes to the same resolution. Finding out after several paid rounds that the eval couldn't have seen the win is the expensive way.

首次评测的输入数量以十五到一百之间为宜。少于十五，单个不稳定用例就能左右分数；远超一百，用户实际上不会逐条审阅，签核就失去了意义——集合很大时，让用户抽读一个分层样本，其余依靠 eval-audit.md §1 的程序化检查。集合之后随时可以扩。一个提醒：如果用户已知道之后要在这个评测上做爬山迭代（hill-climb），集合规模要按他们希望检测到的变更幅度来定，而不只是按可审阅性来定——eval-audit.md §5 给出了算术（通过率的噪声底约为 1/sqrt(n·reps)；25 用例 × 2 次重复约为 ±14 分）。把这个数字与他们想据以行动的提升幅度并排摆出来，并且现在就把用例数与重复次数一起做预算：五十个以上输入加一个随机保留切片，或者更少输入加更多重复，是达到同等分辨力的两条路。花了好几轮付费运行后才发现评测根本看不出提升，是最昂贵的路径。

Get the inputs approved / ### 让输入获得批准

Show the user the actual inputs - all of them, not a summary. Any observation you offer about the set should be quantitative - counts, named cases, measured scores - not "looks reasonable." Default to a markdown file - a table (id, tags, expected, path of any attached file) followed by one section per case with the input text in a fenced block whose fence is longer than any run of backticks in that text (so a line of backticks in a case cannot close it) - and point the user at it; or, if the cases are already in the Step 3 row shape, run the report builder on them and hand over report.html. Prefer whatever the user already uses to look at prompts and transcripts - if they have an existing viewer, a notebook they like, or a markdown convention, put the inputs there instead. Match their workflow; the point is that they actually read them. Don't author an ad-hoc HTML page for this: the inputs are sourced from transcripts, tickets and logs, so their text is untrusted, and interpolating it into HTML you wrote yourself is how a <script> in a support ticket ends up running in the reviewer's browser. The report builder is the one HTML surface for this content - it escapes, sanitizes and sandboxes case text - so route through it or stay in markdown. Ask:

把真实输入给用户看——全部，不是摘要。你对这个集合提出的任何观察都应当是定量的——计数、点名用例、实测分数——而不是"看起来合理"。默认用一个 markdown 文件——一张表（id、tags、expected、附件文件路径），随后每个用例一节，输入文本放进围栏代码块，且围栏长度须大于该文本中最长的连续反引号串（这样用例里的一行反引号不会提前闭合代码块）——并把它指给用户看；或者，如果用例已经是第 3 步的行形态，就对它们运行报告构建器并交付 report.html。优先用用户已有的查看提示词与对话记录的方式——如果他们有现成的查看器、喜欢的 notebook 或 markdown 约定，就把输入放进那里。贴合他们的工作流；关键是他们真的会去读。不要为此专门手写一个 HTML 页面：输入来自对话记录、工单和日志，其文本不可信，把它插值进你自己写的 HTML，正是工单里的 <script> 最终在审阅者浏览器里运行的方式。报告构建器是这份内容唯一的 HTML 呈现面——它会对用例文本转义、消毒并沙箱化——所以要么走它，要么留在 markdown 里。询问：

【评论】此段把来自工单与日志的文本明确归为不可信数据，要求经转义与沙箱渲染，并禁止助手自建 HTML 呈现面——典型的防提示词注入与脚本注入设计。

Here are the N inputs I'm proposing to use. Please skim them. Are these representative of what your app actually sees? Are there obvious cases missing, or cases in here that don't matter?

这是我提议使用的 N 个输入。请快速过一遍。它们能代表你的应用实际遇到的情形吗？有没有明显缺失的用例，或者混进来其实无关紧要的用例？

If you need the user to label or classify a specific case, quote the relevant lines of that case directly in your question - don't send them hunting for "case 17."

如果需要用户对某个具体用例打标签或分类，直接在你的问题里引用该用例的相关行——不要让用户自己去翻"用例 17"。

Do not proceed until the user has looked and said yes. If they say "mostly, but...", fix the "but" and show them again. If you sourced inputs from production data, this is also the point to confirm they're comfortable with this exact set living in their repo. The user's sign-off here is the thing that makes them trust the final number - skipping it produces an eval that is technically runnable and practically ignored.

在用户看过并说"是"之前不要继续。如果他们说"大体可以，但是……"，就修掉"但是"的部分再给他们看一遍。如果输入来自生产数据，此刻也是确认他们接受这批数据进入其仓库的时点。用户在这里的签核，正是让他们信任最终数字的原因——跳过它会产出一个技术上能跑、实际上无人理睬的评测。

Step 2: Decide how to grade / ## 第 2 步：决定如何评分

Start by proactively offering a menu of side-channel metrics the runner can log on every case, and ask the user which ones matter for their product:

先主动给出一份运行器可以在每个用例上记录的旁路指标（side-channel metrics）清单，并询问用户哪些对他们的产品重要：

Besides output quality, here's what I can record per case - output length (words/tokens), tool-call count, whether the model refused, whether it hit max_tokens, format adherence (if output is structured), cost, latency. Which of these matter for this flow? Anything with a hard product ceiling (e.g., "must answer in under 10 s")?

除了输出质量，每个用例我还可以记录——输出长度（词数/令牌数）、工具调用次数、模型是否拒答、是否触及 max_tokens、格式遵从度（若输出为结构化）、成本、延迟。这些里面哪些对这个流程重要？有没有带硬性产品上限的指标（例如"必须在 10 秒内作答"）？

The picked metrics become perf_fields in _state.json and show as columns in the report (full viewer) and in hillclimb's status table; unpicked ones don't. This choice is only about what to display - the runner records model + usage regardless, so cost_usd can be added later if they change their mind. It says nothing about whether the user wants a spend estimate for the eval itself; don't volunteer one unless they ask.

被选中的指标会成为 _state.json 中的 perf_fields，并作为列显示在报告（完整查看器）和爬山迭代的状态表中；未选中的不会。这个选择只关乎显示什么——运行器无论如何都会记录 model + usage，所以如果用户改变主意，cost_usd 之后仍可加上。它不代表用户是否想要针对评测本身的支出估算；除非用户主动问，否则不要主动提供。

If the dataset has labeled positive and negative cases - and per Step 1 it should - don't collapse grading to a single pass-rate. The natural metric family for a classification task is the confusion matrix: report precision and recall on the positives, specificity on the negatives, and the false-positive rate as separate metrics alongside overall accuracy. A variant that "wins" on accuracy may have quietly traded recall for precision or shifted the false-positive rate, and a single number hides that. Putting each cell in its own column makes the tradeoff visible in the report so the user can decide which side of it they care about.

如果数据集带有标注的正例和负例——按第 1 步的要求理应如此——不要把评分压缩成单一的通过率。分类任务自然的指标族是混淆矩阵：在正例上报告精确率（precision）与召回率（recall），在负例上报告特异度（specificity），并把假阳性率作为独立指标与总体准确率并列。一个在准确率上"获胜"的变体可能悄悄用召回换精确，或移动了假阳性率，而单一数字会掩盖这一点。把混淆矩阵的每个格子放进独立的列，让这种取舍在报告中可见，用户才能决定自己在意哪一侧。

Then, for each input, the eval needs to turn the app's output into a score or a pass/fail. Propose the grading method that matches the output's shape - pick the cheapest one that genuinely measures what the user cares about, but don't let cost push you toward a programmatic check for a property that actually needs judgment. The list below is roughly cheapest-first; the right choice depends on whether the output space is constrained or open-ended:

然后，对每个输入，评测需要把应用的输出变成一个分数或通过与不通过。提出与输出形态相匹配的评分方法——选那个真正能测出用户所关心内容的最便宜的方案，但不要让成本压力把本需要判断力的属性推给程序化检查。下面的清单大致按成本从低到高排列；正确的选择取决于输出空间是受限的还是开放的：

  1. Programmatic check. Exact match, contains-substring, JSON validates against schema, classification label from a fixed set, code compiles, test passes. Deterministic and free. Use this when the output space is constrained - a number, a label from a closed set, structured data, a pass/fail - so the check is measuring the answer, not the phrasing. When the app is an agent that acts on an environment (writes code, edits files, calls APIs with side effects), this is the primary grader and it should read the end state, not the transcript: run each case in a disposable workspace, then check what was left behind - tests pass, the diff applies, expected files or values exist, nothing off-limits was touched, steps within budget - and reserve a judge for the taste dimensions a check can't see (readability, minimality, the PR description). If the output is free-form prose with many valid phrasings, a programmatic check will be brittle; use a judge instead. For a coding or tool-using agent, the programmatic check is on the end state, not the transcript: run each case in a throwaway checkout/container and score what's left behind - the hidden tests pass, the diff applies cleanly and touches only the intended files, the linter/typechecker is clean, the expected file/row/API side-effect exists - plus a no-op detector (agent claimed success, workspace unchanged). Transcript-graded "did it say the right things" is the weakest signal for agents; use it only for process guardrails (asked before deleting, didn't leak the secret).

    程序化检查。精确匹配、包含子串、JSON 通过模式校验、来自固定集合的分类标签、代码可编译、测试通过。确定性强且零成本。当输出空间受限时使用——一个数字、封闭集合中的一个标签、结构化数据、通过与不通过——这样检查测的是答案本身，而不是措辞。当应用是会对环境施加作用的智能体时（写代码、编辑文件、调用有副作用的 API），这是首选评分器，而且它应读取最终状态，而不是对话记录：在一次性工作区里运行每个用例，然后检查留下了什么——测试通过、补丁可应用、预期文件或值存在、没有触碰任何禁区、步数在预算内——把评审模型留给检查看不见的品味维度（可读性、最小性、PR 描述）。如果输出是有多种有效措辞的自由格式散文，程序化检查会很脆弱；改用评审模型。对于编码或使用工具的智能体，程序化检查的对象是最终状态而非对话记录：在一次性检出版本/容器中运行每个用例，给留下的东西打分——隐藏测试通过、补丁干净地应用且只触碰了预期文件、linter/类型检查干净、预期文件/数据行/API 副作用存在——再加一个空转检测器（智能体宣称成功，工作区却无变化）。基于对话记录的"它是否说了该说的话"是智能体最弱的信号；只用于过程护栏（删除前先询问、没有泄露密钥）。

  2. Pairwise blind comparison. A judge reads the input and two candidate outputs - typically the current system's and a baseline's - and picks the better one, optionally against a short rubric. When the quality criteria are fuzzy, pairwise tends to be more accurate than scoring each side on its own and subtracting: judges are better at "which of these two is better" than at placing a single output on an absolute scale. It's the natural fit when the question is inherently comparative (a migration, v1 vs v2). Three defaults: randomize which candidate is A and which is B on every case; let the judge answer tie or both_bad rather than forcing a winner; and have the judge's system prompt treat both candidates as untrusted data, not instructions. If you'll hillclimb on this eval, fix the reference now: save the baseline's outputs to disk once (e.g., baseline/ref/<id>.html) and judge every later variant's fresh output against those frozen artifacts - never regenerate the reference, or "win rate" silently changes meaning between rounds. On the baseline rows themselves, write the comparative metric as its neutral value (e.g., win = 0.5) - a primary metric that's missing on the reference variant breaks the report. When a variant later saturates near 100% against that reference and the metric stops discriminating, freeze that variant's outputs as a second reference and carry both win-rate columns forward - don't replace the original. And note that a per-case pairwise judge structurally cannot see a cross-case mode collapse (every output converging to one style can each score "better than baseline"); if that's a risk for this app, pair the judge with a programmatic or set-level diversity metric.

    **成对盲比较（pairwise）。**评审模型读取输入和两个候选输出——通常是当前系统的输出和基线的输出——挑出更好的一个，可辅以简短量规。当质量标准模糊时，成对比较通常比各自打分再相减更准确：评审模型擅长回答"这两个哪个更好"，而不擅长把单个输出放到绝对刻度上。问题本质是比较性的时候（迁移、v1 对 v2），它是自然之选。三个默认做法：每个用例都随机决定哪个候选是 A、哪个是 B；允许评审模型回答 tie（平局）或 both_bad（都差）而不是强行选赢家；评审模型的系统提示词把两个候选都当作不可信数据而非指令。如果要在这个评测上做爬山迭代，现在就固定参照：把基线输出一次性存到磁盘（如 baseline/ref/<id>.html），之后每个变体的新输出都对照这些冻结工件评审——绝不重新生成参照，否则"胜率"会在各轮之间悄悄变义。在基线行自身上，把比较型指标写成其中性值（如 win = 0.5）——主要指标在参照变体上缺失会弄坏报告。当某个变体对该参照的胜率饱和到接近 100%、指标不再有区分力时，把该变体的输出冻结为第二个参照，两列胜率并行保留——不要替换原参照。另请注意，逐用例的成对评审在结构上无法看见跨用例的模式坍缩（所有输出收敛为一种风格时，每一个仍可能"胜过基线"）；如果这对这个应用是风险，就把评审与程序化或集合级多样性指标搭配使用。

    【评论】随机分配 A/B、允许平局、把候选按不可信数据对待——这三条默认分别抑制评审模型的位置偏差、避免强行二选一，并防止候选输出中的指令被评审模型执行（间接提示词注入）。

  3. Model-graded pointwise rubric. A second Claude call that reads the input, a single output, and a rubric, and returns a score with reasoning. Reach for this when there's no baseline to compare against, or when the user wants an absolute per-case number rather than a win rate - open-ended outputs (summaries, explanations, drafted emails) where there's no single correct answer but there are clear quality criteria. Let the user pick the judge model - claude-haiku-4-5 is cheap and fast enough to run on every PR, claude-sonnet-5-5 is a balanced middle, claude-opus-5-5 is worth the cost when the quality criteria are nuanced enough that a weaker judge would miss the point (the same choice applies to a pairwise judge). Ask which they prefer; don't assume. Whichever they pick, avoid using the exact model-under-test as its own judge. For the judge call itself, prefer structured outputs (output_config.format with a JSON schema) over "respond with only JSON" prose - free-text JSON fails on unescaped quotes in reasoning often enough to matter; a schema makes the parse deterministic. Write the rubric - whether it's used pointwise or handed to a pairwise judge - as concrete, checkable claims ("the response cites at least one source from the context"; "the response does not fabricate API parameters") rather than vague scales ("rate helpfulness 1-5").

    模型评审的逐点量规（pointwise rubric）。再发起一次 Claude 调用，读取输入、单个输出和一份量规，返回带推理过程的分数。在没有基线可比，或用户想要绝对的逐用例数字而非胜率时使用——开放式输出（摘要、解释、起草的邮件）没有唯一正确答案，但有明确的质量标准。让用户挑选评审模型——claude-haiku-4-5 便宜且够快，可以每个 PR 都跑；claude-sonnet-5-5 是均衡的中间选择；当质量标准细微到较弱的评审会漏掉要点时，claude-opus-5-5 物有所值（成对评审同样适用这一选择）。询问用户偏好哪种；不要替他们假定。无论选哪个，都避免让被测模型自己评审自己。评审调用本身优先使用结构化输出（output_config.format 加 JSON schema），而不是"只回 JSON"的自由文本——自由文本 JSON 常因推理里未转义的引号而解析失败，频率高到足以在意；schema 让解析具有确定性。量规——无论用于逐点评分还是交给成对评审——要写成具体、可核查的断言（"响应至少引用了上下文中的一个来源"；"响应不捏造 API 参数"），而不是模糊的量表（"按 1-5 评有用性"）。

  4. Human spot-check. For outputs where even a rubric is hard to write ("does this legal brief demonstrate sound reasoning?"), the honest answer may be that a handful of human-graded examples is worth more than a hundred model-graded ones. Propose a small curated subset for the user to grade by hand, and be explicit that this limits how often the eval can run.

    **人工抽检。**对于连量规都难以撰写的输出（"这份法律意见书是否体现了可靠的推理？"），诚实的答案可能是：几十个人工评分的例子比一百个模型评分的例子更有价值。提议一个小型精选子集让用户手动评分，并明确说明这会限制评测的运行频率。

Most cases carry an expected field alongside the input, but what it holds depends on the grading method - it isn't always a ground-truth answer. For a programmatic check it's the literal target; for pairwise it's the baseline response to compare against; for a pointwise rubric it might be the per-case rubric text the judge reads. Let the shape follow from the grader, not the other way around.

大多数用例在输入之外还带一个 expected 字段，但它装什么取决于评分方法——并不总是标准答案。对程序化检查，它是字面上的目标值；对成对比较，它是用于比较的基线响应；对逐点量规，它可能是评审要读的逐用例量规文本。让字段形态跟随评分器，而不是反过来。

When you propose the rubric or criteria, show your work: list the criteria you're including and the ones you considered and left out, with a line on why, so the user can pull something back in rather than wonder whether you thought of it. When the set has both positives and negatives, propose the confusion-matrix metrics - precision, recall, specificity - rather than accuracy alone. Generalize each criterion to the principle behind it - if the user says "it shouldn't cite Wikipedia," write "cites credible sources" rather than hard-coding one domain - and check that two criteria aren't scoring the same underlying thing twice. Where the user is really expressing a tradeoff ("shorter is better, but not at the cost of completeness"), prefer a continuous measure the eval can report over a hard pass/fail cutoff; a threshold can always be applied later, but a binary grade throws away the shape of the tradeoff. And if any criterion asserts a checkable fact ("the API returns field X"), offer to verify it against docs or code before baking it in - rubrics are as prone to hallucination as any other generated text.

提出量规或标准时要展示你的思考过程：列出你纳入的标准以及你考虑过又排除的标准，各附一句原因，让用户可以把某条拉回来，而不是怀疑你是否想到过。当集合同时含正例与负例时，提出混淆矩阵指标——精确率、召回率、特异度——而不是只有准确率。把每条标准泛化到其背后的原则——如果用户说"它不该引用维基百科"，就写"引用可信来源"而不是把一个域名硬编码进去——并检查是否有两条标准在给同一底层事项重复计分。当用户真正表达的是一种取舍（"更短更好，但不能以牺牲完整性为代价"）时，优先选择评测能报告的连续度量，而非硬性的通过与不通过阈值；阈值之后随时可加，而二值化评分会丢掉取舍的形状。如果任何标准断言了一个可核查的事实（"API 返回字段 X"），在写入之前主动提出对照文档或代码核验——量规和其他生成文本一样容易产生幻觉。

Whatever grades quality, record the side-channel metrics the user picked from the menu above on every case. Report them as absolute numbers first ("19.8 s/turn, $0.031/call, 480 output tokens") and only then as relative changes ("33% faster than baseline"); the absolute value is what the user will feel in production, and a percentage without it hides whether you're talking about 2 s or 20 s. Keep them as separate columns alongside the quality score rather than folding them into it.

无论用什么评质量，都要在每个用例上记录用户从上文清单中选定的旁路指标。先以绝对数字报告（"19.8 秒/回合，0.031 美元/次调用，480 输出令牌"），然后才给出相对变化（"比基线快 33%"）；绝对值才是用户在生产中会直接感受到的东西，没有它，百分比分不清说的是 2 秒还是 20 秒。把它们作为与质量得分并列的独立列保留，不要合并进去。

Run the grader on a handful of cases and show the grades alongside the outputs. A rubric that looks sensible in the abstract can turn out to reward the wrong thing; the only way to catch that is to look at what it actually does.

在少数几个用例上运行评分器，把评分与输出并排展示。一条在抽象层面看起来合理的量规，实际可能奖励错误的东西；抓住这一点的唯一办法就是看它实际做了什么。

Get the grading method approved / ### 让评分方法获得批准

Write the pilot cases into .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/baseline/ in the same shape Step 3 describes (results.jsonl rows + traces/<id>_rep0.json), run the report builder (§Report builder in Step 3) on the flow directory, and give the user the resulting report.html - that's how they review the pilot, not a chat summary. With the full viewer, point them at the Transcripts tab and ask them to click into each case: they should see the full exchange (system prompt, every tool call and result, the model's response) alongside the grade and the judge's reasoning. With the lite report, each per-case row links to its trace file - ask them to open two or three and read the exchange there. If the cases carry artifacts - input PDFs/images, generated HTML/SVG/plots, files the model wrote - make sure the user can see those too: with the full viewer, fill the attachments slots per §Make artifacts visible below so they render in the Transcripts tab; with the lite report, name the artifact paths in the handover message. Do this before asking for sign-off. The user can't sign off on grading whose raw material they haven't read. Ask directly:

把试点用例写入 .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/baseline/，形态与第 3 步描述的一致（results.jsonl 行 + traces/<id>_rep0.json），对流程目录运行报告构建器（第 3 步的 §Report builder 一节），把生成的 report.html 交给用户——他们审阅试点靠的是它，而不是聊天摘要。若用完整查看器，把用户指向 Transcripts 标签页，请他们逐个点开用例：他们应能看到完整交互（系统提示词、每次工具调用与结果、模型响应），旁边是评分和评审模型的推理。若用精简报告，每行用例链接到其 trace 文件——请他们打开两三个并在那里读交互。如果用例携带工件——输入 PDF/图片、生成的 HTML/SVG/图表、模型写的文件——确保用户也能看到：完整查看器下，按下方 §Make artifacts visible 填好 attachments 槽位，让它们在 Transcripts 标签页中渲染；精简报告下，在交接消息中列出工件路径。这些都要在请求签核之前做完。用户没法为没有读过原始材料的评分签核。直接问：

Here are five graded examples in report.html - open each one. Would you have scored any of these differently? Is there something you care about that this isn't measuring - or something it's penalizing that you don't actually mind?

report.html 里有五个已评分的示例——请逐个打开。**这里面有哪一个你会打出不同的分？**有没有你在意、而它没有测到的东西——或者它正在扣分、而你其实并不在乎的东西？

If the answer to "would you have scored differently" is yes for even one case, the rubric isn't ready - iterate on it and show a fresh batch until the user's judgment and the grader's line up, then get an explicit yes on the final version.

只要有一个用例的答案是"会打不同的分"，量规就还没准备好——迭代量规并展示新的一批，直到用户的判断与评分器对齐，然后对最终版本拿到一个明确的"是"。

Step 3: Make it runnable / ## 第 3 步：让它可运行

Write a script (or test file, or whatever fits their repo) that: loads the inputs, runs the app against each one, grades each output, writes per-case results to disk, and prints a summary line with the headline score and a confidence interval so the user can tell signal from noise. Run the cases concurrently - bound in-flight requests with something like an asyncio.Semaphore set near the account's rate limit - so a full pass finishes in minutes rather than hours; fast eval turnaround is what makes iterating on the result practical. Keep it simple and keep it in their codebase's idiom - if they have a scripts/ directory full of Click CLIs, make it one of those; if everything is pytest, make it a pytest.

写一个脚本（或测试文件，或任何契合用户仓库的形式），它：加载输入、对每个输入运行应用、给每个输出评分、把逐用例结果写到磁盘，并打印一行带主指标分数和置信区间的摘要，让用户能区分信号与噪声。并发运行用例——用类似 asyncio.Semaphore 的机制限制在途请求数，阈值设在账户速率限制附近——让完整一轮在几分钟而非几小时内跑完；评测周转快，围绕结果做迭代才实际可行。保持简单并贴合用户代码库的惯用风格——如果他们有个 scripts/ 目录放满 Click CLI，就做成其中一个；如果全是 pytest，就做成 pytest。

Have the runner write its output into .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/baseline/ (the hillclimb loop, if they run it later, will add v1/, v2/, ... siblings under the same parent). If the user already has a results layout they like, keep it - what matters is that each case carries the full transcript, usage, cost, and grade from the same model call - but this layout is the default when starting fresh. Write each row as the case completes, not in one batch at the end - a crash mid-run shouldn't cost the cases that already finished - and make resume idempotent at the (case, rep) key, so restarting after a crash skips exactly what's already written and never produces a duplicate-rep row whose score and transcript came from different calls. Four more properties a trustworthy runner needs - cheap to add up front, expensive to discover missing mid-run:

让运行器把输出写到 .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/baseline/（之后如果跑爬山循环，会在同一父目录下新增 v1/、v2/ 等兄弟目录）。如果用户已有满意的结果布局，就保留它——关键是每个用例都带上同一次模型调用产生的完整对话记录、usage、成本和评分——但这个布局是全新开始时的默认选择。每个用例完成时立即写入该行，而不是最后一次性批量写——中途崩溃不应让已完成的用例白跑——并且让断点续跑在 (用例, 重复) 键上保持幂等，这样崩溃后重启会精确跳过已写内容，永远不会产出分数与对话记录来自不同调用的重复行。一个可信的运行器还需要四个性质——事前加上很便宜，中途发现缺失则代价高昂：

Two files per run, plus an errors.jsonl sidecar for attempts that failed before producing a scorable output (API error after retries, tool exception, wall-clock ceiling, grader crash, served-model mismatch) - one line per failed attempt with its failure class, retry count, and model/usage if the call completed. Those never go in results.jsonl: a row at the (case, rep) key would make resume skip it forever and would score plumbing as a model failure. The report shows the error count per variant next to the case count.

每轮运行两个文件，外加一个 errors.jsonl 边车文件，记录在产出可评分输出之前就失败的尝试（重试后仍 API 报错、工具异常、挂钟时间上限、评分器崩溃、实际服务模型不符）——每次失败尝试一行，含其失败类别、重试次数，以及调用已完成时的 model/usage。这些绝不进 results.jsonl：占据 (case, rep) 键的行会让断点续跑永远跳过它，还会把基础设施问题当模型失败计分。报告会在用例数旁边显示每个变体的错误数。

Those two are the runner's job. The full per-variant contract the report builder reads - including files that only matter once a second variant exists - is:

以上两项是运行器的职责。报告构建器读取的完整逐变体契约——包括只有存在第二个变体时才起作用的文件——如下：

file scope purpose if missing
results.jsonl every variant per-case scores, perf, tags no data
traces/<id>_rep<k>.json every variant per-case transcript no click-through; can't audit behaviour
change.md non-baseline what changed and why; first non-heading line becomes the variant's one-line description Harness Changes panel has no rationale - the user sees a metric moved but not what caused it
change.patch non-baseline unified diff of the harness files you edited, cut against the user's real source paths no diff view in Harness Changes
<name>.before.<ext> + <name>.<ext> non-baseline before/after snapshot pair per edited file, dropped in the variant dir no cumulative vs-baseline diff
summary.json optional {"description", "label", "target": "system_prompt"|"skill"|"tools"|"code", "suspicious"} falls back to first line of change.md
文件 适用范围 用途 缺失时
results.jsonl 每个变体 逐用例分数、性能、标签 没有数据
traces/<id>_rep<k>.json 每个变体 逐用例对话记录 无法点开细看；无法审计行为
change.md 非基线 改了什么、为什么；首个非标题行成为该变体的一行描述 Harness Changes 面板没有理由说明——用户看到某个指标动了，却不知道原因
change.patch 非基线 你编辑的测试装置文件的统一 diff，以用户的真实源码路径为基准 Harness Changes 中没有 diff 视图
<name>.before.<ext> + <name>.<ext> 非基线 每个被编辑文件的前后快照对，放在变体目录中 没有对照基线的累积 diff
summary.json 可选 {"description", "label", "target": "system_prompt"|"skill"|"tools"|"code", "suspicious"} 回退到 change.md 的首行

Variant directories must be named exactly baseline or v<N> (v1, v2, ...) - the report builder silently ignores v1-better-prompt, variant_a, or anything else that doesn't match, so put the descriptive name in change.md's first line instead. For the baseline-only eval you're building here, results.jsonl + traces/ is the whole job; the non-baseline rows matter the moment you - or /claude-api hillclimb - add a v1/, and missing them doesn't error, it produces a report whose Harness Changes panel is quietly empty.

变体目录必须恰好命名为 baseline 或 v<N>（v1、v2……）——报告构建器会静默忽略 v1-better-prompt、variant_a 或任何不匹配的名字，所以把描述性名字放进 change.md 的首行。对你此刻正在构建的只有基线的评测而言，results.jsonl + traces/ 就是全部工作；一旦你——或 /claude-api hillclimb——加入一个 v1/，非基线行就开始重要，缺了它们并不报错，只会产出一个 Harness Changes 面板静默空着的报告。

If there's no existing runner to adapt, start from shared/evals/report/runner-scaffold.mjs - copy it into the user's repo and fill in loadCases / runCase / gradeCase. The scaffold's CLI surface (--variant / --model / --reps / --timeout-s), rep-aware filenames + resume, frozen-pairwise-reference handling, read-only _state.json, jittered backoff, per-case wall-clock ceiling, served-model assertion, harness-integrity gate, and failure sidecar are already hillclimb-shaped, so adding v2 later is one flag, not a refactor. The gate means the first run exits 2 until the user runs it once with --approve-harness (it records a sha of the runner, any lockfile beside it or in the directory it is run from, plus _state.json.harness_paths); that flag is the user's to pass, not yours. Treat it as a change detector for the files it digests - it does not cover node_modules/ or anything not listed in harness_paths, and when the hillclimb loop later allowlists the runner command for unattended rounds, that allowlist entry is the security boundary, not the sha. If there is an existing runner, keep it - but check it has those same properties before the loop starts. Run the scaffold with node or bun, whichever is on PATH. If neither is installed (common in Python-only projects), don't ask the user to install one: write the runner in the project's language against the contract above (results.jsonl rows, traces/<id>_rep<k>.json, errors.jsonl, baseline / v<N> directories) and the field reference in shared/evals/report/SCHEMA.md, keeping the scaffold's properties - --variant / --model / --reps flags, rep-aware filenames with resume, backoff, a per-case wall-clock ceiling, a failure sidecar, and the harness-integrity gate (a sha over the runner file plus _state.json.harness_paths, refusing to run on mismatch until the user re-approves - that approval is theirs to give, never yours, exactly as with the scaffold's --approve-harness).

如果没有现成运行器可改造，从 shared/evals/report/runner-scaffold.mjs 起步——把它复制进用户仓库并填好 loadCases / runCase / gradeCase。脚手架的 CLI 接口（--variant / --model / --reps / --timeout-s）、按重复编号命名的文件名 + 断点续跑、冻结成对参照处理、只读 _state.json、带抖动退避、逐用例挂钟上限、实际服务模型断言、测试装置完整性门，以及失败边车，都已经按爬山迭代的形态设计好，之后加 v2 只是一个旗标，不是重构。这个门意味着首次运行会以退出码 2 结束，直到用户用 --approve-harness 跑过一次（它会记录运行器本身的 sha、其旁边或运行目录中任何 lockfile 的 sha，外加 _state.json.harness_paths）；这个旗标由用户来传，不是你。把它当作对其所摘要文件的变更检测器——它不覆盖 node_modules/ 或任何未列入 harness_paths 的东西，而且当爬山循环之后为无人值守轮次把运行器命令列入允许清单时，那条允许清单项才是安全边界，而不是 sha。如果确实有现成运行器，就保留它——但在循环开始前检查它具备同样的性质。用 node 或 bun 运行脚手架，哪个在 PATH 上就用哪个。如果两者都没安装（纯 Python 项目里很常见），不要让用户去装一个：按上述契约（results.jsonl 行、traces/<id>_rep<k>.json、errors.jsonl、baseline / v<N> 目录）和 shared/evals/report/SCHEMA.md 的字段参考，用项目语言写运行器，并保留脚手架的那些性质——--variant / --model / --reps 旗标、带断点续跑的按重复编号文件名、退避、逐用例挂钟上限、失败边车，以及测试装置完整性门（对运行器文件外加 _state.json.harness_paths 求 sha，不匹配就拒绝运行，直到用户重新批准——那个批准由用户给，永远不由你给，与脚手架的 --approve-harness 完全一样）。

Report builder. Do not hand-roll an HTML index. Two builders in shared/evals/report/ read the same flow directory and write the same trajectory/scores.tsv; the report is the deliverable, and which builder you run depends on what is on disk:

报告构建器。绝不要手工卷一个 HTML 索引。shared/evals/report/ 里的两个构建器读取同一个流程目录并写出同样的 trajectory/scores.tsv；报告就是交付物，运行哪个构建器取决于磁盘上有什么：

Pick the full builder if shared/evals/report/build-report.mjs exists next to the lite one in the extracted skill directory (the "Base directory for this skill" shown when the skill loaded), else the lite one; run it with node or bun, whichever is on PATH. Only look there: never search the user's project for a build-report.mjs, never copy one into the project to run from, and don't run a file of that name that turned up anywhere but the skill directory - a builder is executed unattended every round under the user's standing approval, and the skill directory sits outside the project, where a write still goes through a permission prompt rather than landing silently in cwd. The script paths are relative to this skill's base directory while .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/ is relative to the user's project, so spell out the base directory rather than cd-ing into it:

如果 shared/evals/report/build-report.mjs 与精简版同在已解包的技能目录中（技能加载时显示的"Base directory for this skill"），就选完整构建器，否则选精简版；用 node 或 bun 运行，哪个在 PATH 上就用哪个。只在那里找：绝不在用户项目里搜索 build-report.mjs，绝不复制一个进项目再从那里运行，也不要运行任何在技能目录之外发现的同名文件——构建器每一轮都会在用户的常设批准下无人值守地执行，而技能目录位于项目之外，在那里一次写入仍会经过权限提示，而不是静默落进 cwd。脚本路径相对本技能的基础目录，而 .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/ 相对用户项目，所以把基础目录完整写出，而不是 cd 进去：

R="<base directory>/shared/evals/report"   # the "Base directory for this skill" shown when the skill loaded
B="$R/build-report.mjs"; [ -f "$B" ] || B="$R/build-report-lite.mjs"
node "$B" .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/

Show the user report.html, never the raw JSON. If neither node nor bun is installed, the deliverable is a markdown table (case, split, per-variant mean of the primary metric over status-ok reps - the same numbers trajectory/scores.tsv would hold) computed from results.jsonl, plus the trace file paths; still no hand-rolled HTML. If your results land in a different shape, shared/evals/report/SCHEMA.md is the field reference; writing a custom adapter is a full-viewer feature. If the user asks for something the deliverable does not show (with the lite report that could be a chart, the diff on the page, or a dashboard), build it as an extra page beside the deliverable, never in place of it, per shared/evals/report/SCHEMA.md §Pages beyond report.html; don't offer one unprompted.

给用户看 report.html，永远不要给原始 JSON。如果 node 和 bun 都没安装，交付物就是一张 markdown 表（用例、split、每个变体在 status-ok 重复上的主指标均值——与 trajectory/scores.tsv 会装载的数字相同），由 results.jsonl 算出，外加 trace 文件路径；依然不要手写 HTML。如果你的结果落在别的形态上，shared/evals/report/SCHEMA.md 是字段参考；写自定义适配器是完整查看器才有的功能。如果用户要交付物没有展示的东西（精简报告下可能是图表、页面上的 diff 或仪表盘），把它作为交付物旁边的一个附加页面构建，绝不替代交付物，依据 shared/evals/report/SCHEMA.md 的 §Pages beyond report.html；不要无人开口就主动揽荐附加页面。

Make artifacts visible. If the cases consume or produce artifacts - input PDFs/images, computer-use screenshots, generated HTML/SVG/plots, files the model wrote - the full viewer has prebuilt rendering for them; the runner just fills the slot (the lite report renders none of this - it links the trace file and the user opens the ref'd paths directly - so keep every ref relative to the flow root either way). One slot per artifact: put the output in Turn.attachments once and let the viewer render it - don't also screenshot it into a separate file or rely on a fenced block in the response text; the viewer suppresses its inline-render toggle on any turn that already has attachments, so the structured slot is the single source. Input artifacts go on the results.jsonl row as "attachments": [{"kind":"pdf","ref":"baseline/inputs/case_3.pdf","alt":"source doc"}] and render above the first user turn. Output artifacts go on the trace turn that produced them: {"role":"assistant","content":"...","attachments":[{"kind":"html","ref":"baseline/out/case_3.html"}]} - write the file under the variant dir and ref it relative to the flow root. Fenced ```html, ```svg, ```json blocks inside an assistant turn's content get a "> Render" toggle automatically. The full viewer handles image/svg inline, html in a sandboxed scrollable iframe, pdf via the browser's native viewer, json/text in a <pre>, anything else (file: docx, pptx, ...) as a download chip - each with a Hide/Show toggle. Paths under ~2 MB are inlined into report.html; larger ones stay as download links.

**让工件可见。**如果用例消费或产出工件——输入 PDF/图片、计算机操作截图、生成的 HTML/SVG/图表、模型写的文件——完整查看器有预置的渲染；运行器只需填槽位（精简报告不渲染其中任何一种——它链接 trace 文件，用户直接打开 ref 指向的路径——所以无论如何都让每个 ref 相对流程根目录）。每个工件一个槽位：把输出放进 Turn.attachments 一次，让查看器渲染——不要另外截图存成单独文件，也不要依赖响应文本里的围栏代码块；查看器对任何已有附件的回合都会抑制其内联渲染开关，所以结构化槽位是唯一来源。输入工件放在 results.jsonl 行上，形如 "attachments": [{"kind":"pdf","ref":"baseline/inputs/case_3.pdf","alt":"source doc"}]，渲染在第一个用户回合之上。输出工件放在产出它们的 trace 回合上：{"role":"assistant","content":"...","attachments":[{"kind":"html","ref":"baseline/out/case_3.html"}]} - 把文件写在变体目录下，并以相对流程根目录的方式 ref 它。助手回合 content 里的围栏 ```html、```svg、```json 代码块会自动获得一个"> Render"开关。完整查看器内联处理 image/svg，html 放进带沙箱的可滚动 iframe，pdf 走浏览器原生查看器，json/text 放进 <pre>，其余（file：docx、pptx 等）显示为下载标签片——每种都带 Hide/Show 开关。约 2 MB 以下的路径内联进 report.html；更大的保持为下载链接。

How the runner invokes the app matters more than it sounds. Do not reconstruct the Claude API call yourself from the system prompt and model string you found - the eval needs to exercise the user's retry logic, tool wiring, context assembly, and whatever else sits between "input arrives" and "Claude is called." Pick whichever of these is closest to production while still safe to run N times in a row:

运行器如何调用应用，比听起来更重要。不要根据你找到的系统提示词和模型字符串自己去重构 Claude API 调用——评测需要真实经过用户的重试逻辑、工具接线、上下文组装，以及"输入到达"与"调用 Claude"之间的其他一切。从下面几项中挑最接近生产、同时又能安全地连跑 N 次的：

Then run it once - on the full set if it's cheap, or on a handful of inputs if it isn't. Before computing anything, read the row the runner wrote, not just the number it printed: every field reporting needs - model, usage, the trace file, plus whichever guardrail fields the user picked - should be present and non-trivial on the pilot row. Whatever's missing or zero now will be missing or zero on all N cases, and after the full run it usually can't be reconstructed. Fix the runner until one row is complete.

然后运行一次——便宜就在全集上跑，不便宜就跑少量输入。在计算任何东西之前，读运行器写下的行，而不是它打印的数字：报告所需的每个字段——model、usage、trace 文件，外加用户选定的护栏字段——都应在试点行上存在且非平凡。现在缺失或为零的东西，在全部 N 个用例上也会缺失或为零，而且完整运行之后通常无法重建。修运行器，直到一行完整为止。

Before the first paid call / ### 首次付费调用之前

Run eval-audit.md against what you just built - it takes minutes and catches most wiring bugs before they cost a full pass. At minimum: push an oracle (the reference answers, or an input that must pass) and a null (empty output, a constant answer) through the whole runner-plus-grader and confirm ~100% and ~0%; feed the judge, if there is one, an empty string, "I don't know," and a confident answer to the wrong question and confirm it fails all three; confirm an induced API error lands as status: error, not grade: 0; and put the pilot's noise floor next to the change the user hopes to see (§5). Report anything else the checklist turns up per its §6 - briefly, severity first, with an offer to fix.

对你刚构建的东西运行 eval-audit.md——只需几分钟，能在一次完整付费运行付之东流之前抓住大多数接线错误。至少要：把一个神谕检验（oracle：参考答案，或一个必须通过的输入）和一个空检验（null：空输出、常数答案）推过完整的"运行器加评分器"，确认前者约 100%、后者约 0%；如果有评审模型，喂给它空字符串、"I don't know"和对错误问题的自信回答，确认三者它都不通过；确认一个人为注入的 API 错误落为 status: error 而不是 grade: 0；把试点的噪声底与用户希望看到的变更幅度并排摆出（§5）。检查清单发现的其他问题按其 §6 汇报——简明扼要、按严重程度排序，并主动提出修复。

【评论】oracle 与 null 检验借鉴自测试理论：验证评分器不恒真、不恒假，防止产出"全部通过"式的假阳性评测。

Then tell the user what you're about to run - "N cases × R reps on <model>, ~Z minutes" (where Z is the pilot's wall-clock × N/M, not an intuition) - and proceed on a yes. That's the consent gate.

然后告诉用户你即将运行什么——"N 个用例 × R 次重复，模型 <model>，约 Z 分钟"（Z 是试点挂钟时间 × N/M，不是拍脑袋）——得到"是"之后再继续。这就是知情同意的门。

If the user asks what this will cost or gives you a budget, replace that one-liner with a real estimate derived from the pilot's actual usage, and only from that - historical-log surveys and dataset medians are routinely 2-4× off because they don't reflect the mode flags, cache state, agentic turn count, or retries the eval actually runs. Compute, from the pilot rows:

如果用户问这要花多少钱，或给了你预算，就用一个真实估算替换那句话——从试点的实际 usage 推导，且只从它推导——历史日志调查和数据集中位数通常偏差 2-4 倍，因为它们不反映评测实际运行的模式旗标、缓存状态、智能体回合数或重试。从试点行算出：

Then show the math - the formula is what makes the assumption inspectable:

然后把算式摆出来——公式才是让假设可检查的东西：

Pilot: M cases, median ~Xin / ~Xout tokens (range Xlo-Xhi). At <model> prices ($A/MTok in, $B/MTok out, cache-read 0.1×): ~ $C/case (range $Clo-$Chi). Full run = N cases × R reps × $C ~ $Y (range $Ylo-$Yhi), ~Z minutes.

试点：M 个用例，中位约 Xin / ~Xout 令牌（范围 Xlo-Xhi）。按 <model> 价格（输入 $A/百万令牌，输出 $B/百万令牌，缓存读取 0.1 倍）：每用例约 $C（范围 $Clo-$Chi）。完整运行 = N 用例 × R 重复 × $C ≈ $Y（范围 $Ylo-$Yhi），约 Z 分钟。

Ask whether that's acceptable. If it isn't, offer the levers: switch the judge to a cheaper model, cache more aggressively, or trim to the discriminating cases - from the pilot, rank cases by signal (cross-rep score variance, distance from median, judge disagreement) and keep the top K; cases that always pass or always fail tell you nothing round-to-round. If you trim, the loop runs on those K every round and you run the full set once on baseline and once on the winner at the end to confirm - those are two different populations, so don't mix them in the same comparison. The case count and rep count in the formula you got approved are what you run - re-present if either changes. After the full run completes, replace the projected cost with the measured one wherever you wrote it down.

询问这个数目是否可接受。如果不可接受，提供几个杠杆：把评审换成更便宜的模型、更激进地用缓存，或裁剪到有区分力的用例——从试点出发，按信号给用例排序（跨重复分数方差、离中位数的距离、评审分歧），保留前 K 个；永远通过或永远失败的用例在轮与轮之间不提供任何信息。如果裁剪了，循环每轮跑这 K 个，最后你在基线和胜者上各跑一次全集来确认——这是两个不同的总体，不要混进同一次比较。你拿到批准的公式里的用例数和重复数就是你要跑的数——任一变化都要重新呈报。完整运行结束后，在所有写下预测成本的地方换成实测成本。

Step 4: Hand it over / ## 第 4 步：交付

Once the sign-offs are cleared, the user has: an input set they've reviewed, a grading method they've validated, a runnable script, and a baseline number. Proactively - don't wait to be asked - do a full baseline run against the model the user cares about (if the Step 3 pilot already covered the whole set, reuse that; otherwise run the full set now), then build and open the report:

签核全部通过后，用户手里有：审阅过的输入集、验证过的评分方法、可运行的脚本，和一个基线数字。主动——不要等用户开口——针对用户关心的模型做一次完整的基线运行（如果第 3 步试点已覆盖全集，就复用它；否则现在跑全集），然后构建并打开报告：

R="<base directory>/shared/evals/report"   # the "Base directory for this skill" shown when the skill loaded
B="$R/build-report.mjs"; [ -f "$B" ] || B="$R/build-report-lite.mjs"
node "$B" .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/

Verify the report before handing it over. Open report.html yourself first. With the lite report the checks are the header's variant and case counts and that every per-variant column shows numbers rather than blanks (a blank column means grade isn't the {metric_id: number} dict form, or every rep had a non-ok status); the rest of this paragraph is the full viewer. The header should show the variant count you expect - if you ran baseline plus one variant and it says "1 variant", a directory was named something other than baseline / v<N> and got silently skipped (rename it and rebuild). On the Summary chart, the y-axis ticks should be short readable numbers - a tick like 6.838607594936709 means a formatter is missing - and any lower-is-better metric (latency, cost, error rate) should read as such; if the chart or colour scale implies higher-is-better for a metric where lower is, the viewer's first impression will be backwards. If there's more than one variant, click each non-baseline row in the Summary table to open its diff drawer: every one should show a diff and a rationale; an empty drawer means that variant's change.md / change.patch are missing. In the Transcripts tab, click into at least two examples: you should see the system prompt as a collapsible card, distinct user and assistant turn bubbles, and any tool calls and results rendered as their own cards - not as raw JSON inside a text bubble; one giant blob, missing turns, or {"type": "tool_use", ...} rendered literally means the runner's trace writer is emitting the wrong format (fix it per §Step 3 and rebuild; build-report.mjs <flow> --check runs the trace lint without rendering). In the Eval table, click into a passing case and a failing case: every declared metric column should show a number, not a dash - dashes mean grade isn't the {metric_id: number} dict form. Every perf column should carry a non-trivial value - a column full of $0.000 or 0 means the runner didn't emit that field. The metric panel above the table should read cleanly without explanation - a cryptic metric id needs a label. Fix any of these in _state.json / the runner's grade output per §Step 3 and rebuild.

**交付前先验证报告。**自己先打开 report.html。精简报告的检查点是：页眉的变体数与用例数，以及每个变体列显示的是数字而非空白（空白列意味着 grade 不是 {metric_id: number} 字典形态，或每次重复的 status 都不是 ok）；本段其余部分针对完整查看器。页眉应显示你预期的变体数——如果你跑了基线加一个变体而它写"1 variant"，说明某个目录没按 baseline / v<N> 命名而被静默跳过（重命名并重建）。Summary 图表的 y 轴刻度应是简短可读的数字——出现 6.838607594936709 这样的刻度说明缺了格式化器——任何越低越好的指标（延迟、成本、错误率）应呈现为越低越好；如果图表或色标对一个越低越好的指标暗示了越高越好，查看器给人的第一印象就是反的。如果变体不止一个，点开 Summary 表中每个非基线行的 diff 抽屉：每个都应显示 diff 和理由；空抽屉意味着该变体的 change.md / change.patch 缺失。在 Transcripts 标签页，至少点开两个示例：你应看到系统提示词是一张可折叠卡片、用户与助手回合是各自的气泡、工具调用与结果渲染成独立的卡片——而不是文本气泡里的一坨原始 JSON；一大坨、缺回合，或字面渲染出 {"type": "tool_use", ...}，意味着运行器的 trace 写入器在输出错误格式（按 §第 3 步修复并重建；build-report.mjs <flow> --check 可在不渲染的情况下运行 trace 检查）。在 Eval 表中，点开一个通过用例和一个失败用例：每个已声明指标列都应显示数字而不是短横线——短横线意味着 grade 不是 {metric_id: number} 字典形态。每个性能列都应有非平凡值——一列全是 $0.000 或 0 意味着运行器没有输出该字段。表格上方的指标面板应无须解释即可读懂——晦涩的指标 id 需要一个 label。按 §第 3 步在 _state.json / 运行器的 grade 输出里修复任一问题并重建。

Once it looks right, hand over .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/report.html as the deliverable. The handover message is: the file path (or open the file for them), plus a one-line headline ("baseline scores X on N cases - every row links to its transcript"). Prefer that over enumerating cases or scores in the chat - the viewer is where per-case detail lives, and a wall of plaintext makes the user less likely to open it; call out one or two specific cases only when there's something you want them to look at first. The Step 4 verification you just did is for you to catch render bugs, not to narrate to the user. With only a single baseline variant on disk the report renders as a pure eval viewer - per-case table plus click-through transcripts (trace-file links, with the lite report). Point at report.html, not at results.jsonl; the raw JSON is an implementation detail.

确认无误后，把 .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/report.html 作为那个交付物交出去。交接消息就是：文件路径（或替用户打开文件），外加一行标题结论（"基线在 N 个用例上得 X 分——每行都链接到其对话记录"）。优先用它而不是在聊天里罗列用例或分数——逐用例细节住在查看器里，一面纯文本墙只会让用户更不想打开它；只有当你希望用户优先看某两个用例时才点名。你刚做的第 4 步验证是给你自己抓渲染 bug 用的，不是播报给用户听的。当磁盘上只有单一基线变体时，报告呈现为纯评测查看器——逐用例表格加可点开的对话记录（精简报告下是 trace 文件链接）。指向 report.html，而不是 results.jsonl；原始 JSON 是实现细节。

Summarize where each artifact lives and what the baseline score was. If the reason they wanted an eval was to hill-climb on it, point them at /claude-api hillclimb.

总结每个工件位于何处、基线分数是多少。如果他们要评测的原因就是在它上面爬山迭代，把他们指向 /claude-api hillclimb。

Make it durable / ### 让评测可长期复用

The eval is only useful if the user can rerun it - on the next model, on next quarter's traffic, after the next prompt rewrite. Count files and bytes under .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/ (with and without traces/) plus the runner and input files wherever they live, then ask via AskUserQuestion:

评测只有能被用户重跑才有用——在下一个模型上、在下个季度的流量上、在下一次提示词重写之后。统计 .claude/hillclimb/<flow>/ 下的文件数与字节数（含与不含 traces/ 两种口径），加上运行器与输入文件（无论放在哪里）的体积，然后用 AskUserQuestion 询问：

Whichever they pick, do it - stage, write the .gitignore lines, commit with a message that names the flow and the baseline score. The lite report builder ships with this skill, not the user's repo - a teammate regenerates report.html by running any /claude-api command (which extracts shared/evals/report/build-report-lite.mjs with the guides) and then the builder command above; the full viewer regenerates the same way on an EAP install. If the user wants the eval fully self-contained, copy shared/evals/report/build-report-lite.mjs (15 KB, no dependencies) into the committed eval directory; offer the full viewer's {build-report.mjs,lib/} (~1 MB) only when it is on disk.

无论选哪个，照做——暂存、写 .gitignore 行、用一条写明流程名与基线分数的提交信息提交。精简报告构建器随本技能发布，不在用户仓库里——队友重新生成 report.html 的方式是：运行任意 /claude-api 命令（它会把 shared/evals/report/build-report-lite.mjs 连同指南一起解包），再运行上面的构建器命令；完整查看器在 EAP 安装下以同样方式重新生成。如果用户想让评测完全自包含，把 shared/evals/report/build-report-lite.mjs（15 KB，无依赖）复制进被提交的评测目录；只有当完整查看器的 {build-report.mjs,lib/}（约 1 MB）确实在磁盘上时才提议它。

Failure modes to avoid / ## 应避免的失败模式

These are the ways eval-building tends to go wrong. You have latitude in how you run the process above; you do not have latitude to fall into these.

以下是构建评测时容易走偏的方式。如何执行上述流程你有裁量余地；栽进这些坑没有余地。